By: EKENE ODIGWE Support systems are relied on when things aren’t going well or when one is not feeling too great. Havens knows we all need support and encouragement every now and then, for it is such a tough road to…
By Tony Iyare – Popular Activist and Convener of Concerned Nigerians, Mr. Deji Adeyanju was on Friday remanded at the Kano Central Prison until February 2019, even as civil society groups suspect a deliberate plot to eliminate him. The Chief…
By Atiku Abubakar – In order to defeat terror, Nigeria needs a well thought out anti-terror plan and one thing that must be central to that plan is the buy in of the people because terror can only thrive where there…
It is appalling to see some of our fellow compatriots post the photographs of the former military head of state , General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on their Facebook walls with remarks and commentaries mocking his “ ailment”. One of the…
Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University – Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria. There’s also trouble brewing elsewhere in Nigeria’s business world that’s prompted…
John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand – More than a dozen national elections will be held across Africa next year. All 55 members of the African Union (AU) are obligated to hold regular and ostensibly democratic elections. They must…
For a moment, it appeared the Police had a case against Deji Adeyanju, the Convener of ‘Concerned Nigerians’ whom it picked up on Wednesday just at the start of the ‘Police Not Politicians’ protest to raise public awareness of the…
Thirty years ago, being HIV positive was a virtual death sentence. There was no effective treatment. AZT, also known as Zidovudine—one of the earliest anti-HIV drugs—was approved in the US in 1987, but it took many years before life-saving three-drug…
This is a personal journey: Before I left for the United Kingdom in September 2017, I promised myself that my master degree was not going to be just another one. I said to myself that this one will be one…
As we count down to Nigeria’s next general election which is 80 days away, I took it upon myself to unravel the mystery of the country’s electoral albatross and found out that legally, the framers of our laws have done…
